About Tony
Tony Byrd is a licensed mental health counselor with 27 years of experience. He uses cognitive behavioral techniques alongside mindfulness and emotionally focused ideas to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood swings, and difficult life moments. He keeps sessions straightforward.
He helps people name problems, try practical skills, and build routines that reduce symptoms like low mood, poor sleep, or substance use. He also focuses on relationships, intimacy, and issues tied to identity and sexual orientation.
Background and approach
Over nearly three decades Tony has worked in inpatient and outpatient settings. That background includes substance use treatment, trauma care, forensic and court-related programs, and work with people facing complex co-occurring problems. He draws on this variety to match methods to each person’s needs.
In sessions he aims to teach tools as well as listen. Clients can expect skill practice, behavior changes, and conversations that explore meaning and values when that feels helpful. He encourages people to take an active role in planning their care.
Tony practices in Florida as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication styles. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that teach skills and deepen understanding
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking and practice new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and problems like sleep or eating disruptions.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. It can be useful for strong mood swings, anger, impulsivity, and managing self-destructive urges.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on identifying emotions and how they shape relationships. It helps people communicate needs, repair connection, and work through intimacy-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what’s practical, then recommend methods to try. This is a collaborative process where skills, insight, and direction are adjusted based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing skill reminders, or people who prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue therapy when life gets complicated.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English